How do we bridge the gap between business and
missions? It's a
cross-cultural experience for businessmen to move from business to missions.

How do we break the sacred vs. secular mindset…get
the message out to the team on the field that “business IS ministry”?

There is a paradigm shift…how do we manage this
paradigm shift?

Business people need to know that it's OK to be
business people rather than evangelists.
God gifts businessmen to do business; they don’t have to be a pastor –
it’s ok to make money, to do business.

How do we find entrepreneurs – those with a God-given
ability to create new things?

How do we get funding for business enterprise –
investors vs. donors?

How do we engage women…how can women in
developing countries be equipped? The
way to get to men in North America might be to engage the women to go overseas,
have them return and engage their men.

Educating women in developing countries is the
key to reducing poverty, but training the men is the key to changing the
culture. How do we educate women but at the same time work with the men to teach
them that a different approach might be good for them? What do we mean by changing their
culture? Changing the way they
think; allowing them to have paradigm shifts, offering them an opportunity to think
differently – a very slow process.
Let them see that living in the Kingdom of God makes more sense than living
in the culture they’ve been living in. People in developing countries have
grown up in extreme poverty.
Extreme poverty and child abuse impact a child’s brain in the same way;
they both change the way a brain functions and grows with severe
consequences. The victims take on
a survival mentality. Business and
a thriving life require that they step out of survival mentality, step out of
being a victim and become competent adults who take on personal responsibility.
How do we teach these people
to stop being victims and have them want to take on personal responsibility and
realize that they can take care of themselves?